Illuminate Dark Data for Deeper Insights

While many organizations are keen on becoming data-driven, most focus on only a small fraction of the many types of available data. Not accessing and analyzing a fuller spectrum of data, including those from “dark data”—emails, texts, images, photos, videos, and other documents—along with traditional data sources can limit an organization’s ability to gain a complete picture of their customers and operations, and exclude them from game-changing insights that improve business outcomes. Join Tho Nguyen of Teradata and industry analyst James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions to learn about dark data and the new technologies that make it worth storing and analyzing to become a data-driven organization.

More ML, AI, Data Lakes, and Data Viz alone is probably not going to delight your customers or enable your business to maximize the power of analytics. Brian O’Neill (Designing for Analytics) will help business and technology leaders learn how strategic product design and design thinking have a direct impact on turning data into actionable, indispensable insights and enable business objectives to be met. While there are many great data visualization and UI resources available today, this webinar is more focused on the topic of holistic user experience and the role that design plays in enabling delightful end-to-end analytics experiences that also deliver on the bottom line.

A free Self-Assessment Guide will be provided at the end of the webinar so that participants can evaluate current projects against the design techniques and topics discussed in the webinar.

Southwest Airlines is leveraging a growing team of analytics professionals, ample data, and state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies to create and sustain a strategic competitive advantage. In this webinar, Enterprise Data & Analytics Director, Doug Gray will address Southwest’s journey to date as well as future plans for the use of analytics, and highlight the organizational models, methodologies, techniques, and technologies being utilized. Two award-winning solution case studies will be highlighted: Fuel Supply Chain Optimization & Irregular Ops Recovery Optimization.

UPS has gone through a long evolution in moving up the analytical hierarchy, which required organizational commitment and significant process change. UPS has seen a reduction of 185 million miles driven per year by integrating analytics within its operations’ systems. Its award-winning dispatch optimization tool ORION (On Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation) completed deployment in 2016 and is saving $300M to $400M annually. In this webinar, Jack Levis will share his experiences and best practices to compete with analytics, requiring organizational support in the form of data, tools, and senior management commitment.

Given the recent demand for data analytics and data science skills, adequately testing and qualifying candidates can be a daunting task. Interviewing hundreds of individuals of varying experience and skill levels requires a standardized approach. In this webinar, Tanya Cashorali explores strategies, best practices, and deceptively simple interviewing techniques for data analytics and data science candidates.

Many industries need to consistently be in touch with their customers, but tend to create a poor customer experience with excessive and uncoordinated promotions through a lot of different channels. In this webinar, we will examine an analytical approach that improves customer experience by using a collection of data science algorithms – how to personalize channels and content by inferring customer preferences, how to detect touchpoint sequences that have the best impact on results, and how to design a harmonious sequence of promotional contacts to create the best experience.

Automating the decision-making process and being able to activate machine learning and predictive models into business processes and decision models are key to gaining operational efficiency and digital transformation.

In this webinar, we will explore how analytics-as-a-service and real-time digital decisioning methods and platforms provide lower-cost, more efficient solutions. Expert Joe DeCosmo, CAO at Enova International and Enova Decisions, will explain how businesses can utilize these solutions to vastly improve operational decision-making capabilities and create measurable results.

One of the continual challenges for analytics leaders is measuring the work of their analytics groups and communicating the results to business leaders. Sound measurement and transparency form the foundation for strong working relationships, adequate funding of analytics, and trust in the analytics organization.

Join IIA Lead Faculty Member, Bob Morison as he shares highlights of recent market research on analytics metrics. He'll share best practices in the four key domains of analytics measurement: Intent, Performance, Results, and Health.

The International Institute for Analytics will unveil its annual list of top predictions and priorities on December 7. Each year, IIA shares its perspective on the year ahead in the world of analytics, presenting viewpoints from leading analytics practitioners, executives and thought leaders. This year IIA has gathered feedback from more than 200 analytics executives and our broad network of unbiased analytics experts.

Join IIA Co-Founder Tom Davenport, IIA CAO Bill Franks, and IIA Lead Faculty Bob Morison as they discuss the major trends and pressing priorities analytics professionals should pay attention to in 2018. Don't miss this compelling hour of insights to learn where to focus your time, attention and resources in the coming year.

Learn how top performers are winning with analytics in the Age of the Customer.

Financial Services companies are among the market leaders when it comes to analytics performance. How does your business rate?

Join this webinar to hear how brands stack up in their analytics maturity, where you fit in, and how your institution can measure its performance and improve to stay ahead of the competition.

You’ll hear how Belfius Bank was able to put their analytics into action to improve customer profitability with their “mobile-first” strategy and app, and discover the technologies needed to be a customer experience leader in the Age of the Customer.

Ready to boost your ROI on analytics? Did you know that 80-percent more analytics projects meet or exceed forecasted ROI when they’re aligned with business strategy? What’s your game plan to point your analytics projects where your company or department is headed?

Register for the webinar “Strategies to Overcoming Analytic Obstacles,” and hear from analytics expert, Tom Davenport, at the International Institute for Analytics to learn:
* Four typical issues that risk analytics value
* Proven strategies to boost success
* Prescriptive game plans to drive alignment

While many organizations are keen on becoming data-driven, most focus on only a small fraction of the many types of available data. Not accessing and analyzing a fuller spectrum of data, including those from “dark data”—emails, texts, images, photos, videos, and other documents—along with traditional data sources can limit an organization’s ability to gain a complete picture of their customers and operations, and exclude them from game-changing insights that improve business outcomes. Join Tho Nguyen of Teradata and industry analyst James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions to learn about dark data and the new technologies that make it worth storing and analyzing to become a data-driven organization.

Join Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris, analytics thought leaders and co-authors of the seminal book Competing on Analytics for a fireside chat where they’ll share key themes from the 10th anniversary edition of their book, Competing on Analytics, coming out in September.

The discussion will focus on examples of companies that have successfully reinvented themselves and are thriving in today’s data economy and discuss what you can do to better compete. The discussion will also dive into what's changed in the 10 years since the book came out, what's still largely the same, and what the most critical factors to analytics success are in today's environment.

Don’t miss this fascinating discussion about Reinvention in the Age of Analytics with Tom and Jeanne.

With the proliferation of analytics expanding across every function of the enterprise, the need for broader access to data, experienced data scientists and intuitive tools for non-technical users to produce reports and make discovery is growing exponentially.

To meet this growing demand, organizations need to invest in the tools, build processes and enable users to be self-sufficient to avoid bottlenecks while at the same time maintaining the governance and data security standards required to safeguard this critical corporate asset.

This webinar will illustrate how organizations are solving these challenges and enabling users to both access larger quantities of existing data as well as add new data to their own models without negatively impacting the quality, security or cost to store that data. It will also highlight some of the cost and performance benefits achieved by enabling self-service data management.

In this webinar, Healthcare Analytics Expert, Dr. Gwen O'Keefe will explore analytics capabilities that have transformed other industries, like healthcare, and how they can be applied to yours. She'll outline the key steps for success and adoption of predictive analytics projects and share how to advance the use of predictive analytics and machine learning to improve all aspects of your business.

Focus today is shifting from simply capturing big data and discovering new insights with it to operationalizing those insights. The industrial revolution took manufacturing processes from an artisanal practice to a modern technological marvel that is able to manufacture quality items at massive scale. The same type of revolution must happen with analytics and big data. Based on the popular book "The Analytics Revolution", this webinar will address technological, organizational, and cultural points that must be considered to succeed in making big data actionable and operational.

Corruption dates back to the start of business but has come under greater focus in the last decade with enhanced enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. What has changed over time are the tools and more precisely, analytics, which can be used to detect bribery and other corruption schemes.

In this webinar, Fraud Analytics expert, Rich Lanza will explore this important topic and provide a roadmap for taking an analytic approach to root out organizational corruption.

You’ll learn:
• The top internal and external data sources to interrogate for corruption schemes
• How to identify the key red flags leading to corrupt behavior and how they present themselves in data
• The best ways to bolster any compliance program with data-driven prediction and decision making analytics
• The steps to complete a who, what, when, and where set of analytics to hone in on the specific corruption and bribery within your business processes
• The benefits of integrating and managing a continuous review of data sets to identify corrupt behavior

Join us Thursday, June 22 at 12pm EDT/9am PDT and learn how best to apply analytics to detect corruption and safeguard your organization.

Gerhard Pilcher and Jeff Deal of Elder Research and Bill Franks, CAO of IIA

This webinar provides practical wisdom on the organizational and technical keys for achieving high return on investment in analytics. One of the strongest indicators of future analytics success is to develop a work culture that supports and nurtures analytics. This webinar describes the best ways to build an effective analytics culture and institutionalize analytics-based decision making.

The speakers will describe how to get started, choose the right project, build a team, select the right tools, obtain stakeholder buy-in, and achieve other vital organizational goals.

The different levels of analytics are reviewed and key terminology are defined, enabling clear understanding and effective communication of technical goals within an organization.

Real world business examples from multiple industries illustrate how leading organizations employ analytic solutions to transform data into insight, make more informed decisions, and improve business value.

The worlds of cloud computing and on-premises computing continue to grow and mature in their own ways. Cloud has built a strong reputation for flexibility and elastic scale while on-premises systems remain the mainstay for high-performance and secure business-critical computing.

The days of "either/or" are gone. Companies today must learn to be successful with a hybrid environment comprised of on-premises and cloud systems. Companies do not need to cross the chasm, but to bridge the chasm to innovate, grow and gain competitive advantage.

Join this webinar to hear from Imad Birouty, Director of Product Marketing at Teradata, who will discuss how companies are leveraging Hybrid Cloud to build an analytics everywhere mentality.

In this webinar, Gourab De, VP of Data Science Practice at DataRobot, will take us through the important building blocks of Automated Machine Learning. He will highlight the current gaps in the Analytics Organization, how to close those gaps using automated machine learning and provide a live demo of the DataRobot platform and how it’s being applied in different industries.

This webinar series highlights important concepts, techniques and strategies in the world of big data and business analytics. We tap into our unbiased network of analytics practitioners and thought-leaders to tackle real issues at the intersection of business and analytics.